I established BioMed Rare Books in 2015 as an internet-based bookshop specializing in rare and antiquarian books and papers in medicine and the life sciences. I have been collecting and studying printed works in these fields for many years, an activity that has enhanced and informed my practice of medicine and my own biological research. In listing books and papers for sale, I try to describe the significance of their texts, to point out their cultural significance, and to highlight their value as physical objects reflecting the historical and geographical circumstances of their creation. I am particularly interested in annotated copies and inscribed copies.
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First Edition
The Etiology and Pathology of Typhus. Being the Main Report of the Typhus Research commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland
by Wolbach, S. Burt, Todd, John L. and Palfrey, Francis W.
Cambridge, MA : League of Red Cross Societies at the Harvard University Press , 1922 (click for more details)
First Edition
Hereditary Descent: its Laws and Facts, Illustrated and Applied to the Improvement of Mankind, with Hints to Woman including Directions for Forming Matrimonial Alliances so as to Produce, in Offspring, Whaterver Physical, Mental. or Moral Qualities May be Desired; together with Preventives of Hereditary Tendencies
by Fowler, Orson Squire
New York : O.S. and L.N. Fowler , 1843 (click for more details)
First Edition
The Romance of Natural History (2 volumes)
by Gosse, Philip Henry
London : James Nisbet and Co. , 1861, 1862 (click for more details)
First Edition
Die Blumenpolypen der Sussen Wasser Beschrieben und mit den Blumenpolypen der Salzigen Wasser Verglichen [Freshwater and Saltwater Polyps Compared]
by Schaeffer, Jacob Christian
Regensburg : Emanuel Adam Weiss , 1755 (click for more details)
First Edition
Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign in Brownieland against King Cobweaver's Pixies
by McCook, Henry C.
Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs and Co. , 1895 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
Biomed Rare Books ABAA Boston Book Fair List 2021
A list of items offered by Biomed Rare Books at the November 2021 ABAA Virtual Boston Book Fair.